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Two Aspects of Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture from Two Different Middle Egyptain Nomes View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Birmingham Research Archive, E-theses Repository TWO ASPECTS OF MIDDLE KINGDOM FUNERARY CULTURE FROM TWO DIFFERENT MIDDLE EGYPTAIN NOMES By BJÖRN BILLSON A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the Degree of MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity College of Arts and Law The University of Birmingham September 2010 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Abstract This thesis aims to further the understanding of the cultural and social history of the Middle Kingdom nomes. Two different approaches have been taken. The first examines coffin texts unique to individual coffins from the provincial cemetery of El Bersheh in the 15th Upper Egyptian nome. The evidence presented suggests that these texts were products of the Hermopolitan House of Life and were likely to have been created for specific individuals. It is concluded that the provincial elite were the driving force behind this innovation. In the second approach this thesis turns its attention to the pottery of Beni Hasan and the 16th Upper Egyptian nome. It is argued that the pottery corpus of Beni Hasan is reflective of the independence of the provincial administration and that the appearance of the Residence style during the mid 12th Dynasty is reflective of the social changes undertaken during the reign of Sesostris III. In the concluding section both approaches have been brought together, in doing so this thesis has been able to observe the independence and creativity of provincial culture which arose out of the unique power and authority held by the nomarchs. Contents Introduction..............................................................................................................................1 1. Background and aims.....................................................................................................1 2. Methodology..................................................................................................................3 Chapter 1. Developments in Funerary Culture in the Hare Nome as seen through the Coffin Texts from El Bersheh.................................................................................................9 1.1 The storage of the coffin texts, the town of Hermopolis and the House of Life..........9 1.2 Unique spells and the coffins on which they appear....................................................14 1.3 The spells on the canopic boxes...................................................................................22 1.4 The unique spells of El Bersheh and innovation in the Hermopolitan House of Life...............................................................................................................................23 1.4.1 Themes of some of the unique spells from El Bersheh....................................25 1.4.2 Perceived obscurity in the unique spells..........................................................30 1.4.3 Unique spells with links to other spells from the Coffin and Pyramid Texts.................................................................................................................39 1.5 Conclusions..................................................................................................................45 Chapter 2. The Pottery of Beni Hasan: Developments in Funerary Culture and their Relationship to Society...........................................................................................................48 2.1 Background: the cemetery of Beni Hasan....................................................................49 2.2 Background: funerary pottery and its limitations.........................................................51 2.3 Pottery with parallels to First Intermediate and early Middle Kingdom types............59 2.4 Examples of the Residence style at Beni Hasan...........................................................65 2.5 Analysis........................................................................................................................69 2.5.1 Chronology.......................................................................................................69 2.5.2 The appearance of the Residence style at Beni Hasan: a comparison with the pottery of Lisht South Cemeteries................................................................... 72 2.5.3 The Residence style at Elephantine................................................................. 73 2.6 Conclusions..................................................................................................................75 2.6.1 The cultural and social relationship between the nome and the rest of Egypt as seen through the First Intermediate Period types.............................................75 2.6.2 The appearance of Marl C and the economy of the province.......................... 79 2.6.3 The relationship with the state during the 12th Dynasty...................................84 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................87 3.1 The 11th Dynasty..........................................................................................................87 3.2 The 12th Dynasty..........................................................................................................89 3.3 Sesostris III and the later Middle Kingdom.................................................................93 3.4 Final statements............................................................................................................97 List of Figures Figure 1: Vignette of CT sp. 758–760 from the Head of B1C (CT VI 386)............................28 Figure 2: Garstang pottery types 1–14 (Garstang 1907:Pl. XII)..............................................55 Figure 3: Garstang pottery types 15–32 (Garstang 1907:Pl. XIII)...........................................56 Figure 4: Garstang pottery types 33–45 (Garstang 1907:Pl. XIV)...........................................57 Figure 5: Garstang pottery types 46–58 (Garstang 1907:Pl. XV)................................................58 Figure 6: Orel type 33B: Marl C example of the later medium-sized globular jar (Orel 1993:Fig. 2.15).........................................................................................................................66 List of Tables Table 1: The Coffins of El Bersheh and the Quantity of Unique Spells.............................15-16 Table 2: The Unique Spells of El Bersheh Coffins..................................................................17 Table 3: The Spells on the Canopic Boxes of El Bersheh........................................................22 Table 4: Unique Spells Containing Thoth................................................................................25 Table 5: Themes from Unique Spells from the Coffin B2L...............................................26-27 Table 6: Unique Spells Described by Faulkner (1973, 1977, 1978) as „obscure‟....................31 Table 7: Unique Spells with Links to Other Spells from the Pyramid or Coffin Text Corpus......................................................................................................................................39 Introduction 1. Background and aims A group of provincial rulers are attested by rock-cut tombs in provincial cemeteries throughout Upper Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.1 These rulers, known in Egyptological literature as nomarchs, were among some of the most powerful officials during the 11th and 12th Dynasties. Nomarchs are attested from the Old Kingdom (Gestermann 1987:155),2 yet during the First Intermediate Period, with the decreased authority of the king, the nomes had become powerful political regions; the autonomy that they had gained from the weakening of the central administration led to an increase in the nomarchs‟ responsibility, power and 3 ambition (Gomaà 1980:3; Gestermann 1987:157). The evidence of these nomarchs from the Middle Kingdom is inconsistent, leading to disagreement among scholars concerning the prevalence of the nomarchs and the role of the province in the Middle Kingdom administrative system.4 However, two nomes, the 15th (Hare) Upper Egyptian nome and the 16th (Oryx) Upper Egyptian nome, have been the source of a considerable amount of evidence. Dynastic sequences of nomarchs dating from the 11th Dynasty to the reign of 1In the academic material and in this thesis the provinces are referred to as nomes. These rulers can be seen in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Upper Egyptian nomes, although not all of these provinces have nomarchs attested throughout the Middle Kingdom (Gestermann 1987: 171–190; Favry 2005:27–67; Grajetzki 2006:78–116). While the majority are attested by tombs, others are represented on stelae or statues. 2 For literature concerning the nomarchs
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